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In addition to FlexPod’s scalable infrastructure, both automated orchestration and
management are vital companions. “Our competitiveness depends on being able
to quickly provision services for customers,” says Carter. “As business grew, the
company realized that there was too much manual work involved in service delivery,
and had to find a way to greatly increase workloads without increasing staff.”
management are vital companions. “Our competitiveness depends on being able
to quickly provision services for customers,” says Carter. “As business grew, the
company realized that there was too much manual work involved in service delivery,
and had to find a way to greatly increase workloads without increasing staff.”
The team began evaluating vendor-neutral infrastructure automation platforms for
private, public, and hybrid clouds. After extensive evaluation, the team settled on
the Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller. Carter says, “The Cloupia platform was
clearly the best-of-breed solution. Out of the box, it gave us about 80 percent of
the functionality we wanted. Therefore, we could take new services to market even
faster than we had anticipated. And, we could handle a much higher volume of
workloads with significantly lower operational costs.”
private, public, and hybrid clouds. After extensive evaluation, the team settled on
the Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller. Carter says, “The Cloupia platform was
clearly the best-of-breed solution. Out of the box, it gave us about 80 percent of
the functionality we wanted. Therefore, we could take new services to market even
faster than we had anticipated. And, we could handle a much higher volume of
workloads with significantly lower operational costs.”
While Cloupia met all of Data
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automation solution, one problem arose: Data
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its strategic partners. “You can imagine how pleased the team was when we learned
that Cloupia was being acquired by Cisco. With UCS Director, as the platform is now
named, we had a best-of-breed platform that met our business needs, as well as
our requirements for support from a strategic partner,” says Carter.
that Cloupia was being acquired by Cisco. With UCS Director, as the platform is now
named, we had a best-of-breed platform that met our business needs, as well as
our requirements for support from a strategic partner,” says Carter.
Solution
Cisco UCS Director unifies management, automation, and orchestration across a
converged infrastructure of computing, networking, and storage components. It
supports the industry’s leading converged infrastructure solutions, including FlexPod
and FlexPod Express, EMC VSPEX, and Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Vblock
Systems, based on the Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus® platforms.
converged infrastructure of computing, networking, and storage components. It
supports the industry’s leading converged infrastructure solutions, including FlexPod
and FlexPod Express, EMC VSPEX, and Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Vblock
Systems, based on the Cisco UCS and Cisco Nexus® platforms.
Cisco UCS Director and FlexPod offer the Data
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to manage multitenant environments more easily and with greater security. Virtualized
and nonvirtualized workloads can be isolated, yet run side-by-side; the workloads and
their associated resources remain independent of each other.
and nonvirtualized workloads can be isolated, yet run side-by-side; the workloads and
their associated resources remain independent of each other.
The blended environment of private, public, and hybrid clouds is a long term reality.
So we wanted an automation solution that gave us the ability to manage this blended
world as a single, unified environment,” says Carter. “Cisco UCS Director gives the
company that critical visibility, a single pane of glass, for management, automation,
and orchestration across all layers of the stack and all cloud and hybrid environments.”
So we wanted an automation solution that gave us the ability to manage this blended
world as a single, unified environment,” says Carter. “Cisco UCS Director gives the
company that critical visibility, a single pane of glass, for management, automation,
and orchestration across all layers of the stack and all cloud and hybrid environments.”
With the product’s intuitive nature and out-of-the-box functionality, Data
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architect Craig McDonald says it took less than three hours to set up UCS Director.
Cisco UCS Director provides a built-in task library and an easy-to-use workflow user-
interface designer, which IT administrators can use to design complex workflows
visually. Engineers can build and run repeatable physical and virtual infrastructure
provisioning workflows without complex custom scripts. These capabilities make it
easy to customize and automate important operational tasks.
interface designer, which IT administrators can use to design complex workflows
visually. Engineers can build and run repeatable physical and virtual infrastructure
provisioning workflows without complex custom scripts. These capabilities make it
easy to customize and automate important operational tasks.
Customer Case Study
Suzanne Carter
General Manager –
Managed Solutions, Data
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